We toured Lower East Side galleries last weekend and have a full report. Blackston, Golden, Miguel Abreu, Thierry Goldberg Gallery, Lisa Cooley, Dodge and Allegra LaViola all get a visit. Our findings: The monochrome and Christo and Jean-Claude are back in style!

October gallery recommendations are in. Perhaps unsurprisingly, we can look forward to an abundance of marketable, slightly humorous work. It seems if you’re not painting this fall, you may be shit out of luck; this is not to say, though, that there won’t be beautiful, intelligent, or provocative paintings.